MIS398

PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Topic
9 Agile Project Management
Welcome

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TOPIC LEARNING OUTCOMES

At the completion of this topic you should be able to:
Explain the techniques and philosophy around Agile
Demonstrate an understanding of the concepts around
Agile.

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WHAT IS AGILE?
Unlike some traditional project management
approaches such as Waterfall, Agile is designed from
the ground-up to handle a dynamic environment and it
welcomes changes to the scope, even late in the project.
Agile is a project Management framework that allows
projects to not go over time, over budget or sacrificing
quality in a dynamic environment with ongoing user
interaction and feedback.

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WHAT IS AGILE?

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WHO IS USING AGILE?

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USER STORIES AND ACCEPTANCE CRITERIA

User stories are short, simple descriptions of a feature
told from the perspective of the person who delivers the
new capability, usually a user or customer of the system.
They typically follow a simple template:
As a <Type of User>
I want <some goal>
so that <some reason>

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USER STORIES AND ACCEPTANCE CRITERIA

User Story and Acceptance criteria, www.ssw.com.au , (2014)

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CONSULTING WITH STAKEHOLDERS

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THE AGILE TEAM

Scrum is a team process.
The Scrum includes three roles.
The product Owner
The projects key stakeholder and represents users
The Scrum Master
Make sure the team is as productive as possible
Members of the Development Team
Typically between 5 and 9 people

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THE AGILE ENVIRONMENT

Open plan spaces
Hot desks
Break out areas
Casual atmosphere
Collaborative spaces
Room for stand up 5 minute meetings
Fun environment

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THE AGILE ENVIRONMENT

http://officesnapshots.com/2012/02/08/unilever-americas-agile-office/

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THE AGILE ENVIRONMENT

http://officesnapshots.com/2012/02/08/unilever-americas-agile-office/

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THE AGILE ENVIRONMENT

http://officesnapshots.com/2012/02/08/unilever-americas-agile-office/

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PRODUCT BACKLOG AND PRIORITISATION

The product backlog is an essential artifact in Scrum.
The Product backlog is an ordered list of ideas for the
product, kept in an order we expect to do them.
It is the single source from which all requirements flow
All work the Development Team does comes from the
Product Backlog.
Every feature idea, enhancement, bug fix, documentation
requirement etc is derived from a Product Backlog item.
Each item on a Product Backlog includes a description
and a time estimate.

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SAMPLE PRODUCT BACKLOG

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PRODUCT SPRINTS
The heart of a scrum is a Sprint.
Usually a time box of one month or less during which a
Done, useable and potentially releasable product
increment is created.
It is best to have sprints of consistent duration throughout
the development effort.
A new sprint starts immediately after the conclusion of the
previous Sprint.
Sprints contain and consist of the Sprint Planning, Daily
Scrums, the development work, the Sprint Review and the
the Sprint Retrospective.

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ITERATIVE DELIVERY

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ITERATIVE DELIVERY

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ITERATIVE DELIVERY TO DO BOARD

When practicing Scrum, make the sprint backlog
visible by putting it on a Scrum task board.
Team members update the task board
continuously throughout the sprint.
If someone thinks of a new task they write a
new card and put it on the wall.
Either during or before the daily scrum,
estimates are changed (up or down) and cards
are moved around the board.

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ITERATIVE DELIVERY TO DO BOARD

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ITERATIVE DELIVERY

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MINIMAL VIABLE PRODUCT

A key concept in Agile development is Minimum
Viable Product (MVP)
MVP is a barebones version of the project, a
prototype that includes all the must-have
functionality.
Agile focuses on building a rough version as
fast as possible, and then adding more and
more each sptint until we have a finished
product.

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MINIMAL VIABLE PRODUCT

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BANKWEST AGILE ENVIRONMENT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0UayFHctvU

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